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Biden Denied At Least Twice Before Cock Crows

By: streiff (Diary)  |  October 13th, 2012 at 08:05 PM  | 

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While the room temperature IQs at MSNBC spent Friday celebrating Joe “Rain Man” Biden’s illusory victory in Thursday’s debate, the White House spent the day trying to un-four-letter-Anglo-Saxon-word Biden’s performance.

1. Libya. Joe Biden probably told what he believed to be the truth Thursday night as no sane government would trust Biden with confidential, much less Top Secret, information. In his epic performance he managed to contradict the sworn testimony of at least two senior State Department officials given to Congress this week.  In an article titled “Analysis: Biden rekindles controversy over administration’s Libya statements“, the Chicago Tribune notes:

The Obama administration’s latest verbal bungle over the chain of events leading to the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, rekindled the controversy over the incident on Friday and offered new ammunition to Republican opponents.

In Thursday night’s vice presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden insisted that “we weren’t told they wanted more security” at the ill-fated U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, where U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens died.

Biden’s statement, at least on the surface, appeared to contradict congressional testimony less than 48 hours earlier from State Department officials, and offered a fresh opening for Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, who has repeatedly sought to attack the White House over the issue.
To say the least. In response to this grotesque blunder the White House was reduced to defending itself by insisting that the White House was totally unaware of what the State Department and intelligence community now says was known about the Benghazi incident.
Biden has come under fire for saying at Thursday night’s debate, “We weren’t told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there.”

The Cable asked Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications Ben Rhodes whether Biden was speaking for the entire Obama administration, including the State Department, which acknowledged receiving multiple requests for more Libya security in the months before the attacks. Rhodes said that Biden speaks only for himself and the president and neither of them knew about the requests at the time.

 This is stunning anyway one looks at it. Either the White House was kept in the dark about the security situation in Benghazi or, as seems more likely, they simply lied about their role in this fiasco and set about pointing fingers at State and the intelligence community.
2. Taxes. A center piece of the Obama regimes never ending quest to reduce the American middle class to penury is the tax plan to hit the wealthy with higher taxes to make them ostensibly pay their fair share. According to the regime, earning $250,000 per year makes you a marked man. Never mind that many families composed of a police officer or fireman and a teacher could easily fall into this category, for certain a couple of mid-level civil servants would qualify. In the debate, the wild-eyed Joe Biden made his claim:
“The middle class will pay less, and people making a million dollars or more will begin to contribute slightly more,” the vice president replied. “We’re arguing that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy should be allowed to expire. Of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, 800 billion dollars of that goes to people making a minimum of a million dollars.”
The only problem here is that this is simply not true. Friday the White House had to revise and extent the Vice President’s remarks to the extent of forcing the hapless spokesmunchkin, Jay Carney, lie yet again to the White House press corps.
“Biden was describing the same policy that has long been his and the president’s — that the Bush tax cuts should be continued for the middle class and expire for those making more than $250,000,” the official said. “When he mentioned millionaires, he was providing an illustration of how much of the high-income tax cuts go to those making $1 million or more. If you take a look at the transcript and numbers below, it’s clear he was referring to a proposal that allows all the Bush tax cuts above $250,000 to expire.”

Indeed, the revenue figures Mr. Biden pointed to — raising $800 billion — only apply to the bigger tax increase.

One wonders whether Biden actually knows what the president has done and proposed to be done over the past four years.

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  • stillmisstpaw

    I think we should all get busy popularizing a new phrase — “going Biden.” The phrase could apply either to generally inappropriate behavior (“If you say anything I disagree with, I’m just going to laugh derisively and roll my eyes — you know, I’ll go all Biden on you.”), or to generally bizarre comments (“What on EARTH is that man over there talking about?” “I dunno; maybe he’s going Biden on us.”)

  • tngal

    Ok, Streiff…you know the header is going to cause a frenzy, right? I’m good with it but…just sayin’ watch your back. Anywho, its not like Carney and company didn’t expect to have to put in overtime Friday. They knew something was coming, just didn’t know what. Coulda been a gaffe, coulda been an outright lie, might have been sheer stupidity. Whatever, the WH SPOXes anticipated just such an outcome.

  • mrsemptybucket

    Biden is not clueless. He acts that way but how can the Vice President of the US not know what is going in the very explosive Middle East?

  • streiff

    hey, it wasn’t three times. Three denials before cock crow is reserved for a Full Messiah.

  • streiff

    you have a lot more faith in Biden than I do. I think the man has a very limited intellect but an unlimited ego.

  • Bill S

    Because he’s clueless.

  • michael_j_lambert

    At this point, if Biden is the closest thing the democrats have to a deliverer, the only emotion I can feel for them is pity.

  • http://boldcolor.blogspot.com/ Paula

    They send him out for doughnuts during security briefings. Oh, wait…what security briefings? Sigh.

  • chbroussard

    Because he has the IQ of a cucumber.

  • jamesm

    He delivers alright. When two synapses arc together his lips turn upwards. When four synapses connect then he is in shovel ready mode. Get your shovel ready! Here comes a load of Biden.

  • jamesm

    Hmmm? I vote clueless. He ran for president and received 1% of the vote and then dropped out. He is a 1%er. Bloviator and ineffectual. Consigned to history as a mid to lower ranked VP with a history of gaffes. Obama lap dog.

  • evilbloggerlady

    Didn’t I ever tell you? Bidens Do Not Bounce!

  • chbroussard

    Good point!!

  • alaskaescapeartist

    Did I miss anything? I was in the bathroom taking a Biden.

  • americanfever

    In the following quote from above:

    “Biden’s statement, at least on the surface, appeared to contradict…”

    Does the phrase, “at least on the surface”, mean that when you look closer, you’d be wrong?

    It looks as if, to me, that is what you are saying? What does it mean, “when you look closer”?

  • littlehouse18

    He’s bizarre but not really clueless. He knew he was lying, but also knew that few people pay attention to the later corrections.

  • chbroussard

    Now THAT’s funny.

  • gunnyg2002

    Biden, the union tool that keeps on giving. Just wind him up, throw him a bribe, and watch em go!

    I loathe both him and the occupier in the WH.

  • votemout2012

    Problem is only conservative media covering this. I was in airport most of the day watching CNN not a peep about this.

  • summercrisp

    this why we need Voter ID! www.VoterIDforMN.com

  • americanfever

    What would the purpose in that be?

  • streiff

    Alinsky’s Rule #5

  • bgintn

    Ask Susan Cornwell, she wrote it.
    Read it again if you are still confused.

    http://blogs.reuters.com/susan-cornwell/

  • kevhead62

    Much like his boss

  • edintexas

    Don’t feed the trolls. You are wasting your effort.

  • rodguy911

    Slo-Joe remains the gift that keeps on giving!!….LOL!!

  • borisbadenoff

    I really have doubts that Biden is even in the loop when it comes to decision time in the Oval Office..
    With Axle and Jarrett there does anyone really think Obummer cares what Joe thinks?

    Line them all up for a group picture and pick the odd man out… Joe was and is the token…

  • anonymouscitizen

    Agree 10000%

  • MuskegonCritic

    I’m going to go ahead and guess you don’t actually know any fire fighters. You think they’re paid anywhere NEAR 250k to pull your kids from a burning building? Not even half. Not even a QUARTER that. The guys I know pull people from frozen water, pull people from twisted burning car crashes, dive in icy lakes to try to find the bodies of missing children. Every week they’re saving peoples lives and doing stuff I don’t even want to think about…and you think they make anywhere NEAR a quarter million per year? Come down off your mountain where you think your crap doesn’t stink and spend a few seconds trying to learn how Americans live.

  • streiff

    I’m going to guess you are an idiot. First, you can’t read. Second, you can’t do math. Third, I do know firefighters– and cops — who make over $125K per year with overtime and other incentives.

    As to the latter I don’t think you know very much about Americans as you are too busy fellating Obama.

  • cerpintaxt

    I don’t usually do this either, but in this case this particularly misleading editor has made a grotesque claim and I have to stand up for the facts: U.S. firefighter MEDIAN EXPECTED SALARY IS 42,000 http://www1.salary.com/Fire-Fighter-Salary.html

  • fightnright

    Joe is clueless ~and~ a liar. He’s a thickheaded dissembler. If anyone thinks his debate performance rattling off a memorized list of talking points indicates that underneath the flimflam resides a sharp brain, remember that a Chatty Cathy doll can do the same when you pull its string. So can an idiot savant. You have to evaluate the whole of a person’s prior performance to judge intellectual and mental competence.

    Lying first and correcting later has been a key operating tactic of the left in recent years. They rely on The Big Lie to be implanted in the consciousness of the national electorate long before truth can lace up her weary boots. After a televised pronouncement, reality gets kicked to the curb in one short para of section 3, pg. 24 in the print media, or dumped on the airwaves Friday at 5 pm.

    One of the debate tactics I feared was for Biden to fabricate and for Raddatz to give him a pass, even if the subject matter was within her field of expertise. I don’t believe she’s suffered deficits recently in her familiarity with foreign policy, so it’s more likely that one lied, and the other assisted in backing up the falsehoods.

  • antisesquipedalion

    maybe he forgot to take some of his pills

  • BA Cyclone

    Rhodes said that Biden speaks only for himself and the president and neither of them knew about the requests at the time.

    Insert the empty chair here.

    Every day that passes, Clint Eastwood proves he is the most insightful guy in the wider debate.

  • BA Cyclone

    I beg to differ. President Obama told Joe he TOTALLY won that debate. We have to go with that. /sarc